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Welcome to Let's Play Bulletstorm! Bulletstorm is the thinking man's First Person Shooter, and one of the seminal games of the post-Brown era of gaming. Released in 2011, this often misunderstood video game conveys just how fun it can be to hurt virtual people in a tropical paradise, more effectively presenting the same ideas and talking points as Spec Ops: The Line. As we follow  (screenshot from the Bulletstorm wiki) (yeah, Bulletstorm has a wiki) Where the gameplay really comes together is the scoring system. You get points for every enemy you kill, with bonuses awarded for difficulty and creativity. Also, any time you find a new way to kill something, you get a bonus for it. The weaponry is made with this system in mind, and offers a nice set of tools for doing very silly things for a lot of points. What this really means is that the better this game is played, the more fun it is to watch. I will try to get almost every skillshot, by which I mean the fun ones (there's only about 2 that aren't fun). Ishi Sato posted:You wanna do it? Fine! I do not speak train! Post and/or video list, because apparently OPs should link to individual posts now: Prologue and a bonus: (post) (video, cut video, bonus) Act 1: (post) (video, cut video) Act 2: (post) (video, cut video) Act 3: (post) (video, cut video) Act 4 Part 1: (post) (video, cut video) Act 4 Part 2: (post) (video) Act 5 Part 1: (post) (video, cut video) Act 5 Part 2: (post) (video, cut video) Act 6: (post) (video, cut video) Act 7: (post) (video, cut video) Bonus video: Failed attempt at commentating on Act 7. (video) Great Joe fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Dec 27, 2015 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mavur4alDjM (cut version) In which we are introduced to our swashbuckling protagonist Grayson Hunt, his best pirate pal Rell and learn the truth behind a Confederate conspiracy, headed by their ex-boss General "You Festering Assholes" Sarrano. Joining me for the main video is The Heave AKA Heavenator, and for the bonus video there's Corn in the Bible, Lesbiathan and Ceciltron Great Joe fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jun 18, 2015 |
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Jun 18, 2015 00:13
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Yo Bulletstorm is extremely my poo poo and Joe is better at it than I am, so watch this LP.
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Jun 18, 2015 00:16
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Break a leg!
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I was kinda bummed that the other thread wasn't actually bulletstorm. Thanks, guys.
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Jun 18, 2015 01:12
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Goddamn I love the writing in this game. Especially Serrano and Rell.  Interesting thing to note is that the original 15 Men on a Dead Man's chest didn't have that line; it was a fictional sea shanty from Treasure Island of which the author only wrote two couplets. A poet later expanded it into a full poem called The Derelict, which is what we nowadays know as 15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest. Grey is quite the renaissance man for a drunk, foul-mouthed mercenary. Which was a touch I always liked. And no, that's not bad writing. Grey is a pretty smart guy, the game just never explicitly points it out.
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Jun 18, 2015 09:25
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For, uh, a little less than three hours Bulletstorm is a flash sale on Steam. Get it for a little less than five bucks and start slide kicking enemies into spikes/exposed wires/the cold, unfeeling emptiness of space TODAY!
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Jun 18, 2015 15:19
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SSNeoman posted:Goddamn I love the writing in this game. Especially Sarrano and Rell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP9q3XgC1Zk (cut version) with Ceciltron In which we move through a massive mining complex that couldn't possibly be made by the natives, see machines bearing Confederate markings, and learn about the Skillshot system controlled by our Instinct Leash! Just why would Final Echo soldiers be having their performance rated by such a system? Great Joe fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jul 2, 2015 |
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Jun 25, 2015 02:54
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Aaaaaaaaa don't buy carbine ammo it's a waste of skill points. Not only do you have more than enough ammo, you pick up more from almost all the enemies' weapons (leash them if you can't walk over them) and it automatically restores a magazine during important moments if you ever run dry. As for the barrels, apparently they used to be green, but the player testers never shot or kicked them so the devs made them red. Gamers.
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Jun 25, 2015 04:34
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Please discuss your Pro TAS and Speedgaming Streamathon Strats and tinps (hints+tips) in this thread. Support E-sports+this LP
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Jun 25, 2015 15:52
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My only complaint about this game is that the intro people-can-fly video is insanely loud regardless of sound settings. Other than that I have no complaints whatsoever. Except that one character should have been a LOT more buff than she was.
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Jun 25, 2015 17:05
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Yeah, you need proper musculature to kill dicks.
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Jun 25, 2015 17:58
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I loved the ever-loving poo poo out of this mother loving game. It was clear that People Can Fly just went balls to the wall with it, and it was a blast to play.... So of course I wasn't surprised when it didn't get a sequel  Also, lest we forget the best ad campaign ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZyH320R0bI MEIN RAVEN fucked around with this message at 21:40 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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Jun 25, 2015 21:37
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UnSmith posted:I loved the ever-loving poo poo out of this mother loving game. It was clear that People Can Fly just went balls to the wall with it, and it was a blast to play....
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Jun 25, 2015 22:57
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UnSmith posted:I loved the ever-loving poo poo out of this mother loving game. It was clear that People Can Fly just went balls to the wall with it, and it was a blast to play.... Word from the Steam thread is PCF just went independent again and managed to take the Bulletstorm license with them. If we suddenly see it get a patch to remove GFWL in the coming months, there may yet be hope.
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Jun 29, 2015 07:01
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MonkeyforaHead posted:Word from the Steam thread is PCF just went independent again and managed to take the Bulletstorm license with them. If we suddenly see it get a patch to remove GFWL in the coming months, there may yet be hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETF2Hiv6Y60 (cut version) with Corn in the Bible AKA Crowfeathers In which we reach the outskirts of the city on Stygia, have our first meeting with that elite Final Echo trooper who could lead us to Sarrano and finally we survey the Terrordome. I'd like to point out that the environment this act starts you out in looks like a tech demo for all kinds of effects. The rock formations around the lagoon Gray and Ishi climb out of has a lot of caustics on the sides that face the water, this is also the first time we see both of Stygia's suns, even though only one of them is casting godrays. I believe this was the first game to come out on what they then called Unreal Engine 3.5 and it's clear they wanted to show it. I also didn't go deep enough into it but this act introduces every collectable in the game: The electric bug swarms (shoot the bugs, get the points), the newsbots (explode it, get points) and the bottles (drink and kill or shoot the bottle, both gets you points). I'm not really planning on 100% completion with any of these, but I'd like to get close. Since I'm not drinking the bottles I might as well show the effects off in a bonus video later on.
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Jul 2, 2015 20:42
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There's a couple skillshots you can only get while drunk so they're good for that.
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Jul 2, 2015 21:02
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I like the dinosaur because he reminds me of the hit film Anonymous Rex starring Daniel Baldwin
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Jul 3, 2015 01:02
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You sure he doesn't remind you of Theodore Rex starring Whoopi Goldberg?
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Jul 3, 2015 02:43
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Well, mostly he reminds me of The Land Before Time 13: The Secret of Friends. But Theodore Rex is also very memorable, yes.
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Jul 3, 2015 03:12
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This game is strangely poetic... But how did you get it to work with GFWL being down?
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Jul 3, 2015 15:44
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GFWL never went down. People just went crazy over a leak that it might possibly go down and then some devs took the opportunity to scare their publishers into funding a change over to Steamworks. Epic just didn't because...I dunno. I wish they would, so I wouldn't need this physical copy anymore.
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Jul 3, 2015 16:54
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And yet I require a hack just to make the copy I bought on Steam to work.
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Jul 3, 2015 17:20
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Yeah my steam copy seems to be all the shits. 
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Jul 3, 2015 17:20
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Well, the first issue that comes to mind is the fact that every GFWL game on Steam comes with a horribly outdated version of GFWL, and the way they work together ensures that no automatic updating function fixes that. So, the first thing you'll want to try is to uninstall GFWL, and then download the latest version from this link. I'm not saying it'll work, but it might.
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Jul 3, 2015 22:30
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Someone please tell me if that advice works, this game deserves to be played and I might just have some some plans for multiplayer when this is done. In the meantime here's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rI0fJEKHig (cut version) with Lesbiathan and Zain In which we explore a large habitable dam, finally catch up to the last surviving Final Echo trooper and witness the gang war going on between the Creeps and the Skullz. About that cave at the start of the act, there's a lot of graffiti on the walls, most of it is just "TO THE SURFACE" and "SKULLZ" with some art of a skull on it. However, we can see the Skullz refer to the Creeps as "Topsiders" on some of it. Exactly why that is we've yet to see, but they are heavily mutated, and we've already seen some heavy uranium mining operations going on outside the city so it might be getting easier to connect the dots. Oh and here's a little something I made earlier: 
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Jul 9, 2015 23:05
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One nice thing about the headhunter is that time continues even during slowdown. So you can use this time to recover from the BLOODY SCREEN SO REAL, especially if you use the explosive bullet. Wanted actually does have a video game - Wanted: Weapons of Fate. It's a sequel to the movie's story, weirdly. It was a third-person cover-based shooter but it had some interesting ideas. The curve bullets was wonky and the graphics were ugly as hell but the devs clearly put effort into it so I can't dislike it. Have a gif:  VV That's pretty much my opinion of it too. Seraphic Neoman fucked around with this message at 17:24 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Jul 10, 2015 05:13
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Well, it certainly looks ambitious. Not sure I'd want to play an entire game based around that gimmick but anything's better than just playing yet another Gears of War.
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Jul 12, 2015 17:15
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I passed this game off at the time of its release thinking it was another generic and bland gears of war rip off. I'm starting to wish I hadn't, the game looks surprisingly really good.
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I'm glad this LP is improving your impression of the game. Speaking of which, it's now time for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nvbLHtfXUA (cut version) with the Lesbionic Woman This is the longest act yet, so long that I've been forced to split it in two. Rest of it's coming next time. In this half of the act we enter The Forbidden Zone which we later find out to be a funtime park and botanical garden! There's not much to say about the act so far, other than that it continues to display the exploitative nature of holiday destination cities.
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Jul 19, 2015 01:05
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Just so you know, about Harry Knowles' thing? It's on PBS, now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlXP7NQICIk
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Jul 19, 2015 06:55
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This is why I like Grey. He never says poo poo like "pugnacious hallucinations? In English please?" And it's a nice gameplay-story element that he isn't as affected by the spores as his teammates. It only makes him woozy, not crazy angry.
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Jul 19, 2015 07:40
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 Joseph asked that I "hoopz his thread" so now I have.
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Jul 21, 2015 03:36
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J.theYellow posted:Just so you know, about Harry Knowles' thing? It's on PBS, now. You think SomethingAwful forums can be dangerous places to tread? They're NOTHING compared to the Aintitcool forums. Once in a while there are some interesting conversations about something, but 90% of the time it's flamewars and Adbots.
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Jul 21, 2015 04:08
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 My computer broke. This LP will continue when it isn't.
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Jul 24, 2015 23:34
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J.theYellow posted:Just so you know, about Harry Knowles' thing? It's on PBS, now. Of all the things I thought would happen to Harry Knowles, a PBS contract was not one of them.
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Jul 25, 2015 12:06
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corn in the bible posted:Of all the things I thought would happen to Harry Knowles, a PBS contract was not one of them. KLRU in Austin is a pretty loving special PBS station. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHunNJ9TvSA
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Aug 2, 2015 02:38
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News update: I have a new build planned and I'll be deciding on whether I can afford to buy the parts for it come September. In the meantime, you might wanna check out Fridurmus' recordings of the stream that started this...thing.
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Aug 17, 2015 14:19
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 I'm back! Expect an update...this weekend-ish? I'm still getting used to the thought of having a working desktop.
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Oct 15, 2015 01:12
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Okay, I got to have a sit-down and record another update, so here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8kpN3MkGY With special guest Skippy Granola In which we learn of Ishi's fate, the truth about the drop boxes laying around the planet and the skillshot rating system. This half of the act has a few of my favourite visuals in the game so far, and I think part of it being in the console demo shows that PCF and Epic agreed with me.
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Whoop whoop! Nice to see this back in black.
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